[clue-tech] Qwest DSL download speed reduced

[David L. Anselmi]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
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> I assume that I can do something like this:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps295/products_configuration_example09186a0080093e3b.shtml 

Yes, that's what you want.

> to get the C675 to just pass whatever frames/packets/cells it gets on the
> DSL side through to the ethernet side, but after that, what do I make
> the Linux box ethernet interface do?  PPPoE and PPPoA seem like the obvious
> candidates, but does anybody know for sure?  I'd rather not incur a 
> spanking from Qwest on this, and as I see it, they really don't need to know what
> happens in my basement - that's my side of the demarc box.

The link above makes it clear you want Linux to be the PPPoE client.  So 
look for howtos on that.  And study the PPP side of your modem, you'll 
want to mimic it's behavior on Linux so that Qwest doesn't know the 
difference (the setup stuff in your Qwest book would be good to look at, 
as well as the Cisco docs on what it means).

And keep good notes so you can give a CLUE talk about the whole thing.

One thing that might be a challenge is that when the 675 has issues it 
tends to re-establish everything.  If you look at the logs it seems that 
each layer can tell the others when it goes up or down.  So it might not 
be as straightforward when one layer goes down for the other layers to 
do the right thing.

But that's a worry for later.  See if you can get Linux to connect to 
Qwest with PPPoE and then you can worry whether it's as reliable as you 
want.

Good luck!
Dave